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London, July 27 (ANI): Thirty-two spaghetti westerns have been lined-up for this year's Venice Film Festival.
Films by Ken Loach, Kenneth Branagh and Wes Anderson are reported to be in competition for the Golden Lion award, which is the main prize of the festival.
It is Keira Knightley's latest movie, 'Atonement', which is set to open the event on 29 August.
The Vanessa Redgrave and James McAvoy co-starrer, which is an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, is also in contention for the top prize.
Ang Lee, who has already bagged the Golden Lion in 2005 on the back of his film 'Brokeback Mountain', is once again in the competition with his Chinese thriller 'Lust, Caution'.
Film-maker Quentin Tarantino, a long-time fan of spaghetti westerns, will be curating the retrospective.
He has promised that the genre's little-known directors "will now get their due", reports the BBC. (ANI)
